10 Amendments of Mairead McGUINNESS related to 2018/2008(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas consumers make an associative link between brand, agricultural or food product and quality and expect agricultural or food products of the same brand to be identical in quality whether they are sold in their own country or in another Member State;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas consumers make an associative link between brand, product and quality and expect products of the same brand to be identical inhave the same quality whether they are sold in their own country or in another Member State;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas products of the same brand may have different characteristics deriving from legitimate factors such as consumers preferences in the destination regions, the place of manufacturing, specific local requirements, or differences in sourcing of raw materials due to their geographical or seasonal availability;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the analyses show that certain products contain less meat, or less of other ingredients, in certain countries, in most cases those countries which joined the EU in 2004, 2007 and 2013; whereas the analyses found instances of the same products being sold at considerably higherdifferent prices in those countries than in the so- called ‘old Member States’some Member States, compared to the others;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
C c. whereas existing European legislation covers the practices mentioned, since it already protects consumers against deceptive practices which have or are likely to substantially alter the economic behaviour, in relation to the product, of the consumer whom it affects or to whom it is addressed;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
C d. whereas the European Union has already developed distinctive labels in order to meet the particular expectations of consumers and to take account of production specificities through the optional quality terms;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Firmly believes that, in response to European citizens’ concerns about different products being sold under the same brand in different Member States, the practice of ‘one brand, one product, different content and proportional compositEU needs to develop a coherent and harmonized strategy to better enforce the existing legislative framework, which already sets out the provision’s needsed to be stopped by means of an amendment to Directive 2005/29/EC of 11 May 2005 concerningensure that consumers are informed about food products, and not misled by unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices when making a purchasing decision;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Urges the Commission to implement all the necessary measures in order to avoid any disruption of the European single market, taking into due account the existing differences in market conditions, purchasing powers and fiscal regimes among Member States;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that, until that practice is stopped, and in order to raise the profile of manufacturers’ initiatives on the use of locSupports producer and manufacturer initiatives on specific product labelling and on the use of local recipes ; recalls that European legislation already allows the introduction of optional quality terms, such as 'protected designation of origin' (PDO) and 'protected geographical indication' (PGI) for products which have a specific link with a specific region, the 'traditional rspecipes, a system should be introduced for indicating, in a way thatality guaranteed' (TSG) for products characterized by a traditional production process or mountain products or products from the outermost regions of the EU; stresses that such systems respects both the consumer’'s right ofto an informed choice and consumer preferences, the local recipes used in the preparathe proper functioning of specific products; the single market;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the establishment of an agency or other specialised unit toWelcomes the Commission's efforts to assist national enforcement authorities in monitoring consistency of composition and proportional use of ingredients in identically branded and packaged food products., as well as identifying unfair commercial practices in the marketing of food products;